1.   American policy toward Cuban rafters is unlike that of refugees from anywhere else.

2.   Attorney General Janet Reno underlined the message later when asked what would happen to a Cuban rafter who sets sail for Florida now.

3.   Coffey is a former U.S. attorney who recently represented the Miami relatives of Cuban rafter Elian Gonzalez.

4.   Demonstrations are planned by Cuban exiles here to protest the U.S. policy of bottling up Cuban rafters at the Guantanamo naval base.

5.   Government efforts are already supplemented by rescues of Cuban rafters by commercial ships and other boating in the area.

6.   Looming at the time of the Clinton policy switch was the prospect of thousands of Cuban rafters reaching Miami in another out-of-our-control boatlift.

7.   The Bahamas maintains an agreement with Cuba to return Cuban rafters.

8.   The graphic poster displays a photo of Dog Rocks Cay in the Bahamas, where five Cuban rafters died last year trying to flee to the United States.

9.   The Mexican navy regularly picks up Cuban rafters.

10.   The rest were the last to arrive on Coast Guard cutters before Clinton ordered that Cuban rafters be taken to Guantanamo.